… the last Empress of Prussia when she married Henry of Battenburg. Beatrice, the companion and confident of her mother, had said “I don’t like weddings. I shall never marry.”
She fell in love with Henry after meeting him at her niece’s (another Victoria) wedding. Victoria did not want Beatrice to leave, so made the deal with the newlweds that if they would live in the palace and take care of Victoria until her death, she would permit the marriage.
Beatrice and Henry were married in 1885.
(photo: The Battenburgs on their wedding. Note the distinctive fitted and flat front of the high style of the day, with the bustle, at this time mostly fabric with a pad support, that would become the largest one in history by the next year 1886)